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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 2000 21:27:42 +0000
From:      Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To:        Jim Mock <jim@lust.geekhouse.net>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to Show Environment Variables
Message-ID:  <00110521274300.03057@marbsd.tninet.se>
In-Reply-To: <20001105101228.A2642@envy.geekhouse.net>
References:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF6E7@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> <20001105101228.A2642@envy.geekhouse.net>

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On Sunday 05 November 2000 18:12, Jim Mock wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 at 08:29:18 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> > I'm looking through both the man pages and The Complete FreeBSD but
> > can not locate the command to show what a environment variable is
> > currently set.  My shell is tcsh and I have found the 'setenv'
> > command.  I've tried this with no success (i.e., 'setenv PATH').
>
> You can use one of two things.  Using env will give show you every
> variable currently set.  Using echo $VARIABLE will show you that
> variable.  For example, echo $PATH, or echo $SHELL.
>
> > I would also like to know how to show the current system time.  I've
> > found the 'time' command but this doesn't appear to be what I want.
>
> You want the man page for date.
>
> > Is there a web page somewhere that lists some of these simple
> > commands?
>

http://62.5.7.17:8000/'nix%20stuuf/unix.txt

might help


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